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The famous English theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who died on March 14 of this year at the age of 76, all conscious life worried about the fate of mankind. Paralyzed the scientist feared that our civilization would be destroyed by war, aliens, the fall of a meteorite to Earth, the advent of the almighty aggressive artificial intelligence and the like.
Now it turned out that shortly before the death of the illustrious Researchers have a new fear of the future earthlings. Hawking predicted that the relatively wealthiest of we will be able to modify their genes, thereby significantly improving their physical and mental performance. Such people will live longer and more productive, becoming even more influential and tyrannical.
According to the physicist, these individuals, united in groups, able to become a real threat to other representatives of humanity. Artificially created superhumans and their children will be able to protect oneself from old age, illness, as well as bodily and mental weakness. If genetic engineering continues to evolve the same the pace, as now, a similar prospect may well become reality.
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However, many conspiracy theorists say that change experiments human genotype to improve his body and mind held today. So, most recently on the World Wide Web information appeared that the American government was secretly uses a super-soldier with altered DNA in Syria. Despite the purely the experimental nature of the technology, it supposedly demonstrates impressive results.
A similar development, as Stephen Hawking feared, will inevitably lead to serious political tensions between superhumans and simple earthlings. The rich don’t really think so us for equals; now imagine how insignificant and we will become unnecessary for them if the moneybags transfer yourself to a new level of development. War and mass extermination commoners can then become an inevitable scenario, believed scientist…
DNA War Stephen Hawking
